Briefly explain "globalization project":

What will be an ideal response?


Globalization is called a project in order to emphasizes its political dimensions. Despite the general promise of global prosperity with “free markets,” material benefits are largely confined to only about two-fifths of the world’s population. This is because markets are neither natural nor free. They are institutional constructs, managed by powerful players, including international financial institutions, banks, corporations, states, and even nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The distinctiveness of the globalization project is its political intervention to overcome the limits of the development project, which focused on the nation state. Therefore, development, which had been defined as nationally managed economic growth, was redefined in the World Bank’s World Development Report 1980 as “participation in the world market.”

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